Country domain chiefs prefer jaw-jaw to war-war
Breakway county code chief Willie Black, chief of the UK registrar
Nominent, sounded a conciliatory note towards ICANN today. Having read
the riot act to ICANN in Los Angeles, and with the ccTLDs unanimously
voting to withdraw from the key DNSO support organisation, Black thinks
ICANN is much more prepared to do business now. However he staked his
claim for formal representation on the main ICANN board for the country
code registrars, and representation as a fully fledged
support-organisation status.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19712.html

German domain registry warns against .de billing scam
German domain registry DENIC eG has issued a warning about "an attempt
to extract money from customers for a senseless and dubious service."
This, the second such scam to come to DENIC's notice this year, takes
the form of a letter apparently designed to convince people they have to
cough up DM270 in order to keep their .de domain for another year.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19666.html